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Rwanda Rwanda Drawn in Tricky Pool C of U19 World Championships
Rwanda U19 Volleyball national have been drawn in pool C along side European giants in the FIVB Boys' U19 at World Championship, to be held in Tijuana and Mexicali of Baja California from June 27 to July 7. Rwanda will play against France, Russia, Iran and Finland at the High Performance Centre in Tijuana. The draws were held in Tijuana, Mexico on Friday. The composition of the four pools ...
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Angola Official Determined to Bring New Dynamics in Cultural Sector
Luena - The new director of the Peace Monument of the eastern Moxico Province, Raimundo Zango Machai, who was sworn in last Friday, guaranteed that he is committed to bringing new dynamics into the culture sector and change the image of the monument. Speaking to ANGOP, after the swearing-in ceremony, the official said that everything will be done to materialize the objectives that led the ...
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Kenya Centum Set for High-End Development
Investment firm Centum is set to kick off the development of the high-end 100 acre project in Gigiri near the United Nations complex. The company is now seeking contractors for the Two Rivers urban development project. The wholly owned subsidiary of Centum, Two Rivers Development, will manage the 8.3m square-feet mixed use commercial development centrally and provide infrastructure. The ...
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Angola Museum Drafts Programme to Attract Communities
Lubango - The Regional Ethnographic Museum of Huila is to start in June a programme aimed at attracting the various communities to the museum through photographs of the institution's main artefacts. The information was given Friday to ANGOP by the museum's director, Soraia Santos, who added that the intention is to make the institution known and enable the various urban communities to ...
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Mozambique President Guebuza Visits Shanghai
Maputo - Mozambican President Armando Guebuza on 15 May arrived in Shanghai where he met with the city’s mayor and business figures. This is the last stop in the President’s working visit to China that began on 13 May. Shortly after his arrival President Guebuza met with Mayor Yang Xiong for over an hour before attending a working dinner during which ways to increase financial ...
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Rwanda The Bell Tolls for Rwandan Refugees
The ball is in their court and it is to refugees still living in camps in foreign lands for whom the bell tolls as the Cessation Clause that requires voluntary repatriation nears effect. The government has severally urged the refugees, who are mainly in DR Congo, Uganda, Congo Brazzaville and Zambia, to return home. However, despite amenities, including transport, free documentation and other ...
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Kenya Disabled People Disown Nominee
A special needs lobby group in Busia has demanded the nullification of their ODM nominee.The people with disability network chairman Dickson Pekol said Monica Mung'ala who was nominated to represent PWDs is an able person. "We are appealing to IEBC not to gazette Mung'ala's name. We also urgeODM party leader Raila Odinga and disabled patron Amos Wako to intervene," ...
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Rwanda Initiative Powers Sockets in Nyarugenge District Homes
Thirty-five homes in Gakoni Sector, Nyarugenge District are set to benefit from an initiative that will extend electricity to the area. The initiative is supported by the continental Access Bank Rwanda. Marie Gorette Dusabe, the bank's country manager, said the initiative is in line with government programme of enabling the population get connected to electricity as a key mechanism of ...
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Tanzania ICT Operators Asked to Share Their Infrastructure
EXISTING Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) operators in the country have been directed to cooperate with new firms by sharing their infrastructure to avoid congestion. The Minister for Communication, Science and Technology, Prof Makame Mbarawa said on Thursday evening that the government had prepared an infrastructure sharing policy to ensure towers weren't erected every ...
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Tanzania MP Decries Shortage of Coins
Dodoma - A LAW maker expressed concern over the shortage of coins in various parts of the country, noting that the situation is affecting efficiency among petty business people. He asked government to ban the business of buying and selling coins for a profit that is popular in urban areas. In his primary question, Mr Muhammad Ibrahim Sanya (Mji Mkongwe - CUF) said that the circulation of coins ...
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South Africa Agang Growth Continues With Director of Communications
Agang South Africa has appointed a top South African editor as its Director of Communications. Thabo Leshilo, who will take up his appointment on June 1, has served as Editor in-Chief of the Sowetan and Sunday World, Editor of the Pretoria News, Editor of the Business Times and Public Editor for all eight newspapers in the former Avusa group. "We are excited to have someone of ...
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Rwanda Primus Guma Guma Road Show Fires Up Nyamagabe
UNLIKE the inaugural road show in Rusizi a week ago that was characterised by a little drizzle, Saturday's weather in Nyamagabe was favourable. No winter in Rwanda. Rapper Bull Dogg opts for gloves. During the road show in the sleepy Nyamagabe town, not many carried homemade signs and posters confessing their love for the contestants, as was the case in Rusizi. It is also important to ...
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Namibia still enjoying sustainable growth
Economic growth is still at healthy levels in Namibia, the latest statistical figures for the country show. Growth defies high energy prices and the slow development in neighbouring South ...
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Libyas ambassador in Namibia defects
A Namibian-based diplomat at the Libyan Embassy has defected to join anti-Ghaddafi and pro-democracy movement at home and abroad. Saad Bakar (44) and his family have left Namibia for "a Mediterranean ...
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Botswana split over Kalahari court ruling
The Botswana government is frustrated about yesterday's Court of Appeal decision to allow the indigenous San ("Bushman") people of a Kalahari reserve drill for water. Human rights groups celebrate the ...
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Niger transition shows way for North Africa
With Saturday's second-round presidential elections, Niger ends a model one-year all-inclusive democratic transition process. The process could be an example for the revolutions in Egypt and ...
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Africa defies AU chiefs support for Ghaddafi
African Union (AU) chief and Equatorial Guinea dictator Teodoro Obiang Nguema twice has called Colonel Ghaddafi to secure AU support. But other African countries rather support Libya's ...
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Africas worst dictator becomes AU leader
Equatorial Guinea's Dictator Teodoro Obiang Nguema has been elected to take over the post of chairman of the African Union (AU). "This is the darkest day in the AU's history," afrol News editors ...
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Africa Europe set out cooperation priorities
The Action Plan 2011-2013 was adopted at the recent Africa-EU Summit held in Tripoli, Libya. It replaces the First Action Plan 2008-2010 that was approved at the last summit three years ago. Both plans of action are based on eight partnerships defined as "strategic". These focus on energy, climate change, peace and security, Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), trade and ...
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Zambia Free Men Charged for Being Homosexual - Human Rights Watch
Nairobi - Zambian authorities should dismiss all charges and release two men arrested for engaging in homosexual acts, Human Rights Watch said. The police should immediately cease forensic anal examinations, which are intrusive, invasive and constitute cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment in violation of international law. On May 6, 2013, police in the Kapiri Mposhi district in central ...
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South Africa SA National Editors Forum Saddened to Hear Death of Vuyo Mbuli
The late TV presenter Vuyo Mbuli. THE South African National Editors’ Forum (Sanef) is deeply saddened by the sudden death of Vuyo Mbuli, a much-loved and respected journalist. Mbuli, 46, reportedly collapsed while watching a rugby match between the Cheetahs and the Reds at the Free State Stadium in Bloemfontein on Saturday evening. He was treated at the scene and rushed to a local ...
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Zambia Multichoice Zambia Top Executives Die in Chibombo Accident
Two top pay television service Multichoice Zambia executives are among the people that died in the latest Chibombo road accident that occurred last evening adding to a spate of recent road horrors around the same area. Multichoice general manager Simon Botha, whose wife serves at the United Nations as Zambia's Permanent Representative in New York, survived the crash with injuries but the ...
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Zimbabwe Voter Registration Ends Amid Concerns
The mobile voter registration exercise ended countrywide last night with scores of people who failed to register calling for the extension of the programme. A new 30-day voter registration exercise has already been planned for but the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) insists funding of the process has to be released early to allow for voter education. Long queues were seen at registration ...
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Zimbabwe MP Urges People to Work Hard Castigates NGOs
Uzumba Member of Parliament Cde Simbaneuta Mudarikwa has encouraged members of his constituency to work hard and ensure food security rather than depending on donations. He was speaking at a conservation agriculture field day organised by the Cluster Agricultural Development Services recently at Chihwai homestead in Zanga Village. "Lets us emulate ants that work hard and source their own ...
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Zimbabwe Share Infrastructure Broadband Firms Urged
Africa's Carriers Carrier, WIOCC, believes there is a lot of broadband potential but urged players to share infrastructure so that they offer better services. Speaking during the recent broadband conference in Harare, WIOCC chief commercial officer Mr James Wekesa said sharing infrastructure helped avoid underutilisation of fibre. "(Local broadband players must) compete on services ...
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Three major African airlines to launch new regional player
West and central Africa may soon have a regional airline to connect the countries of the region and feed the three largest airlines in Africa, especially South African Airways, which has dominance on the continent, although it has indicated it will not provide financial support to such a venture.
There are exciting plans afoot in the African aviation industry the continent’s three largest airlines, South African Airways, Egypt Air and Ethiopian Airlines, considering the establishment of a regional airline in central and West Africa that would feed the larger airlines on loner routes or what they call ‘truck routes’. Read more
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